About the company
Our client is a technology company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Own and build the core backend platform for a data-intensive system, covering high-volume ingestion, large-scale querying and performance tuning. The role carries full ownership of infrastructure decisions and the technical roadmap, working directly with engineering leadership on a fast-moving team.
What you'll do
- Design and build the core backend platform for high-volume data processing.
- Own infrastructure and data platform work, setting priorities and the technical roadmap.
- Partner with product engineers and technical leadership to ship features that scale.
- Build services that handle very large data throughput and real-time ingestion.
- Lead the design of large-scale data models and query layers for fast analysis.
- Profile and tune analytical and transactional databases using benchmarks, query plans and monitoring.
- Use AI coding tools to speed up benchmarking, monitoring, incident debugging and development.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- Roughly four to ten years of building server-side or low-level software systems.
- Demonstrated results in raising the speed, uptime and capacity of heavy data workloads.
- Strong computer science fundamentals across system architecture, databases and scaling.
- Strong backend engineering skills in Python or another performant language.
- Able to work on-site five days a week from the New York office in a fast-moving environment.
Bonus points
- Hands-on experience running large-scale analytical databases, relational databases or streaming systems.
- Formal technical training, or equivalent hands-on experience.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary: $190K to $260K per year
- Equity
- Health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement plan
Location and work model
- New York, NY, United States
- On-site, 5 days a week in the office
- Full-time
Skills Required
- Roughly four to ten years of experience building server-side or low-level software systems
- Demonstrated success improving the speed, uptime, and capacity of heavy data workloads
- Strong computer science fundamentals in system architecture, databases, and scaling
- Strong backend engineering skills in Python or another performant programming language
- Ability to work on-site five days per week from the New York office
- Hands-on experience with large-scale analytical databases, relational databases, or streaming systems
- Formal technical training or equivalent hands-on experience
What We Do
Raydar is a talent acquisition and business consulting firm that connects world-class and emerging talent with growing organizations. It supports companies through team development, strategic hiring, and customized growth solutions, helping clients recruit roles such as engineers, product managers, executives, legal counsel, and quantitative traders. Raydar focuses on understanding each organization’s needs, culture, and long-term goals to build high-impact teams.
